February 01, 2006

Curiouser and Curiouser

Our pal Kathy the Cake Eater and her sister lay into the ominously p.c. reworking of Curious George about to hit the movie screens.

I've got my own doubts about the film - in one of the extended theatrical trailors, Ron Howard more or less confesses that there's not near enough comedic material in the books for a full length movie, so they had to make a lot of things up. One cringes in advance.

Oh, and the poster for Curious George at my Metro stop reads, "Show Me The Monkey!" Perhaps it's just my own depravity coming through, but that slogan doesn't conjur up exactly the image I think the marketers had in mind.

Posted by Robert at February 1, 2006 12:29 PM | TrackBack
Comments

The Man in the Yellow Hat was a bad, bad man.

Posted by: Steve the LLamabutcher at February 1, 2006 12:33 PM

Hell. Handbasket.

'Nuff said.

Posted by: Brian B at February 1, 2006 12:38 PM

Oh, and guess what,
Where the Wild Things are is in pre-production.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386117/
This has got to be the eighth or ninth sign of the apocalypse.

Posted by: rbj at February 1, 2006 12:56 PM

The Man in the Yellow Hat was a bad, bad man.

I cannot read that sentence without a John Cena inflection...

Posted by: Rex Ferric at February 1, 2006 04:46 PM